The Trial

 There are a great many reasons why Democratic victories in the Georgia Senate run-offs were important. Obviously, the ability to confirm Cabinet positions and Judicial vacancies and pass a budget are huge. Whether or not the filibuster survives is an ongoing question. Another reason why Democratic control of the Senate is going to be important is the Trial of Donald J. Trump for his second impeachment.'

As I'm sure everyone recalls, the first impeachment trial under Republican control called no witnesses. Basically, by doing so, Senate Republicans never had to confront the actual charges. This time will be different. The decision to delay the trial will also benefit Democrats. Every day, more and more facts about the Beerbelly Putsch comes forward. It was a pre-meditated attack by right wing groups like Oathkeepers, with planning and coordination launched weeks and days in advance. They intended to kill people, with prominent Democrats (and possibly a few Republicans) in mind. Over 50 Capitol Police officers were injured and three have died, two by suicide. 

Democrats will be able to parade these police officers before the Senate and defy the GOP to acquit Trump. Additionally, if there was direct coordination between anyone in the White House and these militia - and would be willing to bet there was - then that, too, will come to light. Even if there wasn't, there is a clear and documented pattern of Trump exhorting his cultists to come to DC to create chaos. 

It is a common practice for Rightist militias to create a plausible deniability shield for themselves. The Post notes:

Former domestic terrorism investigators say the alleged discussion by Watkins and Caldwell about the group’s leader points to a longtime pattern among such extremists.

“Historically, within the right-wing extremist movements, leadership has produced rhetoric to spin up their members, increase radicalization and recruitment, and then stand back and let small cells or individual lone offenders follow through on that rhetoric with violent action,” said Thomas O’Connor, a former FBI agent who spent decades investigating domestic terrorists. “Domestic terrorism actually developed the leaderless resistance concept, taking the potential blame away from the leadership and putting it down into small groups or individuals, and I think that is what you’re starting to see here.”

There will be a similar attempt to exonerate Trump because he never actively said, "Go kill Nancy Pelosi." That flimsy pretext will be enough for a majority of US Senators. Hopefully, it will make for "good TV" and there will be a price to pay for all this. Even more hopefully, Ted Cruz and Joe Hawley lead a group of authoritarian lickspittles to boycott the trial and vote, thereby preventing Trump from holding any future office by reducing the number of votes needed in the Senate.